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Otto von Münchhausen

1716 - 1774

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Otto II. Freiherr von Münchhausen (11 June 1716 – 13 July 1774) was a German botanist. He was Chancellor of University of Göttingen and a correspondent of Linnaeus. He named several species of oaks by the Linnean system, as well as other plants. The standard botanical author abbreviation Münchh. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto von Münchhausen is the 768th most popular biologist (down from 547th in 2019), the 4,360th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,835th in 2019) and the 160th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 768 out of 1,097. Before him are Adam Lonicer, Tomitaro Makino, John Ellis, George Prideaux Robert Harris, Hwang Woo-suk, and Wilhelm Weinberg. After him are Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, David Don, Robert Ridgway, C. B. van Niel, Mary F. Lyon, and Richard Wettstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 21. Before him are Eugenios Voulgaris, Pehr Kalm, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, and Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton. After him is George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville. Among people deceased in 1774, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 19. Before him are Florian Leopold Gassmann, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, Anna Morandi Manzolini, and Johan Peter Falk. After him are Henry Baker, and William Hewson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 4,362 out of 7,253. Before him are Birgit Fischer (1962), Konrad von Würzburg (1225), Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau (1824), Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786), Prince Frederick of Prussia (1794), and Josef Bradl (1918). After him are Josef Gauchel (1916), Kito Lorenc (1938), Reinhold Begas (1831), Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg (1584), Gerhard Fieseler (1896), and Käthe Krauss (1906).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 160. Before him are Hugo von Mohl (1805), Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816), Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804), Erwin Stresemann (1889), Adam Lonicer (1528), and Wilhelm Weinberg (1862). After him are Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), Karl Julius Perleb (1794), Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), Eduard von Martens (1831), Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768), and Ole Borch (1626).

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